The ‘Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo’ of Granada, declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1919, holds one of the most important conserved buildings from the period of transition between Almohad and Nasrid art. Located in the Realejo quarter, in the area previously known as the Alfareros or old potter´s quarter, this royal complex has been subject to i...
Snails preyed upon by the Grenada Hook-billed Kite (Chondrohierax uncinatus mirus) were collected from two nesting sites in different regions and habitats on Grenada, with the aim of better understanding the diet of this endemic and endangered subspecies. Apart from the large snail Megalobulimus oblongus, which was present in the environment but no...
En este trabajo abordamos la figura de la mística sor Beatriz María de Jesús (1632-1702), monja clarisa del convento del Santo Ángel Custodio de Granada, a través del estudio crítico de su biografía, escrita por fray Tomás de Montalvo. Se presta especial atención a su relación con la autoridad episcopal granadina, censora por inercia de cualquier c...
El llamado «milagro de las lágrimas o del sudor», ocurrido en Granada en 1670 en torno a la Virgen del Rosario, representa un punto de inflexión en el contexto de la época. Además de los testigos habituales que podía requerir este tipo de procesos, fieles o devotos, nos proporciona una interesante nómina de artistas y artífices activos en esas fech...
The adaptation of temperate fruit crops is a challenge being increased by the global warming. Chilling requirement is a key factor for adaptation. The objective of this study was to estimate the chilling requirement of peach cultivars BRS Bonão, Esmeralda, Granada and Eragil, using theTabuenca test. Chilling accumulation was computed using four dif...
The aim of this study is to make an approach to the main senatorial families who lived in the Municipium Florentinum Iliberritanum (current Granada) during the first centuries of our era in the period known as the early roman empire. Specifically, the families of the ValeriiVegeti, the Cornelios and the Papirios. Through epigraphic analysis and cla...
Tomando la información proveniente de las Ordenanzas de las Aguas de Granada de 1538, publicadas en 1552 como parte integrante de las Ordenanzas de la Ciudad, se expone en el presente trabajo el régimen de las aguas que se mantenía en la Granada de la primera mitad del siglo XVI, concerniente a las acequias que la suministraban tanto dentro como fu...
Dans l'Espagne du XVIIIe siècle, il y avait un besoin, chez les Espagnols eux-mêmes, de créer une image de l'Espagne qui servirait de réponse aux hétéro-images négatives projetées depuis la France. Le récit El sol de Sevilla (1800), de Pablo de Olavide, fut l'une des tentatives les plus remarquables de construire de ce type de discours nationaliste...
Holy Week is an important religious and cultural festivity in Andalusia that has evolved from the 15th century to the present day. Music has been an important element accompanying the processional parades throughout this period. In Granada, it was after the Civil War that music ensembles, composers and processional marches of certain importance for...
In Old-Regime Castile, women weren’t allowed to execute public offices, but they could -and often did- own, manage and transmit the posts that were alienated by the crown and patrimonialized by officials. The ways these capabilities were developed and how women, according to their interests and circumstances, profited from public offices remain ove...
